Senior Program/Project Manager – Health Plan/Health Care

Category

Consulting

Location

Sacramento

Overview

About Us

Freed Associates is a boutique healthcare consulting firm specializing in engagements for health plans, hospitals, physician practice groups, life sciences and related healthcare organizations based in California. Since 1991 our clients have looked to us to ensure that their initiatives are completed successfully and without drama. We are continually expanding our team to meet consistent demand for our services.

Our team consists of top-notch industry professionals who know hospitals, acute care, ambulatory care, health plan, and pharma operations. We focus on meeting our clients’ needs, and helping to solve their problems. We offer a broad range of consulting services to address operational, regulatory, transformational, and management needs. If you are frustrated by your current work, cross country travel schedule or lack of work/life balance, you should talk to us.

Responsibilities

Here is a sample of the kind of work you might do for our clients:

Manage the development of programs/products from concept through launch engaging all necessary functional areas including operations, strategy, financial, clinical, regulatory, revenue cycle, business intelligence, governance, marketing and communications, and technology

Qualifications

We are seeking motivated, talented consultants to join our team; we've found that people with the following attributes and experience tend to excel at Freed.

A high degree of self-motivation, integrity, versatility and flexibility

Ability to deal with ambiguity, operate in fluid situations, and embrace a challenge

Desire to improve on their strengths and constantly learn new skills and capabilities

Significant experience with driving all aspects of large transformational projects in healthcare

Ability to produce, and drive others to deliver, high quality deliverables and timely results

Technology expertise to be the bridge and “voice” between operations and analytics, or between IT and the business

Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal

Experience and comfortable working at many functions and levels of an organization, including physicians, nurses, other caregivers, analysts, managers, directors and senior leadership

Experience identifying new opportunities within a client

10 or more years of healthcare and or health plan related consulting

Experience with commonly used systems such as Epic, Cerner, TriZetto or similar systems is a plus

Significant Program and Project Management in health care organizations with the ability to pivot between executive and sponsor updates to creating and managing project plans

Willingness to travel on the West Coast

Bachelor’s Degree required. Master’s Degree, PMP, RN or other clinical expertise, and Lean Six Sigma Certifications are a plus

Perspective

Our clients’ employees are typically quite good at managing the day-to-day, recurring activities needed to run their operation. However, many of these employees have comparatively less experience at managing cross-functional, time sensitive, one-time projects that are unlikely to be repeated again. This is where we step in to partner with them to plan and execute on a scope of work. Our clients depend on us to organize the project with a clear path to developing the deliverables and delivering on their desired outcome.

Our clients are major healthcare providers and payors located in California. Our client contacts are typically the CEO, CFO, CIO, VP, and Directors of these organizations. We provide a wide array of services to our clients, so versatility and flexibility are attributes we seek and value highly.

Our firm was founded on a few, simple ideas:

If we take good care of you, you will take good care of our clients

You want to be paid well and have challenging work, high caliber colleagues that push you to be better

You want the ability to build a career around work/life balance

We are proud of our long-standing commitment to these ideas; they are at the heart of how we treat our people. For example, we pay 100% of the cost of medical, dental, vision, long-term disability and life insurance for all employees.